Press Releases & Updates 2001

Taking advantage of lax security and working in small groups the activists were able to get through the perimeter fence of the site and in some cases penetrated a fair distance inside. Some are still in custody and the full story has still to emerge but the main charge against them seems to be criminal damage to the fence.

One of those released is Judith Pritchard (79), from Malvern in Worcestershire. Tired but elated she explained how she had cut through the fence and was only held when she was going through a tunnel well inside the site. Judith was also charged with obstructing police after she refused on principle to take a DNA test, saying that she needed to consider the implications of the test before complying. She said: "I am glad to have made one small step in the direction of disarming this monstrous so-called weapon of mass destruction and I hope that thousands more will join us."

Also held were: Margaret Jones (52) a freelance writer from Bristol; David Heller (25) a full time campaigner from Belgium; Sylvia Boyes (57), from Keighley in Yorkshire, who was famously acquitted at Manchester Crown Court in January; Ulla Roder (46), from Odense in Denmark; Allen O’Keefe (39), from Cromer in Norfolk; Alison Crane (47) a local authority officer from Stafford and James Kinnaird from Bristol. Three others were escorted off the site after penetrating the perimeter fence.

The week of action continues.

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